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Café-owner and divorcee Cara Shelley gets caught up in a deadly ghost hunt in this warm and engaging cozy mystery set in a quirky British stately home. Forty-something single mother Cara Shelley is very content running the Happy Huffkin café in the grounds of a quirky stately home. But her daily...

Welcome to Tanton Towers! Explore the eccentric, history-filled house, take tea in the café . . . and visit the site of a recent murder?! First in a delightful new traditional British cozy mystery series. Everyone told Cara Shelley that she was crazy to set up a café in the shadow of eccentric ...

The world, in Iain Crichton Smith's vision is a field full of folk; and one Scottish village is its microcosm. Here, the Minister wrestles with his loss of faith, and his cancer, concealing them even from his wife, but she had divined them. Mrs Berry cultivates her garden assiduously, and when Je...

The mansion, WINTERWOOD was built many years ago over a disused and mostly forgotten graveyard in Katoomba, New South Wales. A malevolent spirit with dangerous power is on the loose in the mansion. A police detective has already been savagely attacked by this spirit and is now in a mental institu...

It's just another one of those 'easy' VIP security assignments for ex detective Ben Hood. This job couldn't possibly land him in the crocodile infested Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, attempting to rescue the kidnapped wife of a member of the Australian Federal Parliament, or get him...

Inspired by the iconic punk scene of the late '70s, No Names blurs the lines of affection and sexuality in a haunting tale of desire, hope, and loss. Mike and Pete were "no names," two working-class boys lost in the shuffle of their stratified town, brought together by their love of music. By 19...

Ben Hood is hired by a beautiful Sydney model to investigate what she believes is a haunting in her house which overlooks a notorious suicide cliff at The Gap, Watsons Bay. This treacherous location also claimed the lives of 121 men, women and children in a shipwreck in 1857. Someone seems to hav...

An old plane, carrying an extremely valuable and dangerous cargo, was alleged to have crashed into Limeburners Creek near Port Macquarie, immediately following World War 11. An extensive search by many, failed to find the wreckage of this plane or its cargo. A local resident is suspected of havin...

'A tour de force' Guardian 'A bloody yet surprisingly warm-hearted spin on The Godfather. Great stuff' The Times, Best Thrillers of 2025 Babs Dionne, doting grandmother and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into its borders with the he...

Six people locked in a haunted hall . . . Cameras watching their every move . . . And then someone dies . . . This first in a spine-tingling new paranormal mystery series from New York Times bestselling British fantasy author Simon R. Green will make you doubt your judgement - and believe in ghos...